Re: gEDA-user: gattrib

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

> 
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 07:37:10AM -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> > Hey thanks!  That's the reason I wrote it!  Using gschem & gattrib
> > together makes managing the design of larger PC boads much easier than
> > just using gschem alone.  You can use it to bulk manage your
> > footprint, value, part no, etc attributes.
> > 
> > Eventually, it can become a BOM management tool, since you can put
> > "vendor" and "vendor_part_no" attributes on each part, for example.
> > First, however, I need to implement printing. . . . 
> 
> I am generating BOMs by Perl script contemporarily. It also calculates
> total price :)

That's one good way to do it.  For gattrib, I also want to have it
export .csv files, which you can then read into gnumeric or oocalc (or
-- horrors -- Excel) to do stuff like that.  

So many ideas, so little time. . . . .

Stuart